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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1913
Page
5
In brief ads list Estes barber shop and others offering services from chimney sweep to meat markets. Items include for sale rugs, team and wagon, house, hay, furniture van, stamped Christmas designs, rental front bedroom, nursing trainee ads, and a Percheron stallion trade. Also notices about lost watch and power outage.
Every member of Pendleton Lodge No 288 BPO Elks in the city is asked to gather at the lodge room tomorrow Sunday at 2 o clock sharp to march in a body to memorial services at the theater Oregon. By order of Exalted Ruler.
Iva Smith of Point Blank Texas reports suffering with a liver complaint and trying Chamberlain's Tablets. She claims she is completely cured and recommends them to everyone. Sold by all druggists.
The partnership of Robert A. Bissinger and Oscar T. Bissinger known as Bissinger Brothers is dissolved by mutual consent. Robert retires and Oscar and Lee C. Bissinger continue the business under the same name. Robert bears no post dissolution obligations except preexisting debts. Dated Pendleton Oregon December 6 1913. Signed Robert A. Bissinger Oscar T. Bissinger Lee C. Bissinger.
The county superintendent in Pendleton Oregon will hold a four day examination for state certificates from December 17 to 20 1913. Subjects include Fortnoon Writing U S History Physiology Geography Reading Arithmetic Theory and Practice Orthography English Literature Chemistry School Law Geology Algebra Civ il Government Geometry Botany General History Bookkeeping and Thesis topics. N E Young adv. County Superintendent.
In the District Court of Oregon F M Coe of Pendleton is adjudicated bankrupt. A first meeting of creditors will be held at the referee in bankruptcy office in Pendleton on December 18, 1913 at 10 o'clock a.m. to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct related business. Dated Pendleton Oregon December 6 1913. Thomas Fitzgerald Referee In Bankruptcy
New Orleans reports 20 new federal suits by Louisiana planters and dealers against the American Sugar Refining Co under the Sherman act seeking 10.38 million in damages. The filings bring total lawsuits in two weeks to 160 against the firm for over 111 million dollars.
In Centralia Washington on December 6 Ben Guegenbichler sustained serious injuries while working around a logging engine at P and BE Camp No 12 Mill Creek when his glove caught and his arm drew into the drum around which the cable is wound. Thwarm was badly torn and later amputated, and that It was not torn from its socket is considered a miracle.
Joe Lewis of Helix and many local farmers including Charles Alapache John Tompkins and Will Ferguson came to town for a corn show. Notables Will Matthews of Pilot Rock Geo Goodman from Athena and J W Bitter from Pilot Town were seen in town. Mrs F B Stewart from Stanfield Mrs Clarence C Conners and Eugene McCully attended with families. Prof Frank Carruth and Mrs Carruth from Wattsburg expected to join later.
Pendleton to hear Dr. Enna and Robert Lovell Wilson at the Alta Theatre on December 15. A letter from C. H. Holt praising the artists says Pendleton music lovers will receive a rare treat. Dr Enna expresses with soul and Wilson with a deep baritone voice are highlighted as top performers.
In Manhattan Kansas drought showed farmers the value of scientific farming. Agricultural college guidance led to silo construction saving crops and converting farmers to silos. Demonstration farms and farm institute attendance rose sharply, up 170 percent over 1913.
Ohio’s new movie censorship law goes into effect banning certain dances and explicit scenes. Censors list examples such as torture, nudity, crime in moving pictures while theaters pay a fee to operate under the law.
Nearly 20 900 miners in South Wales are idle due to a Great Western railway strike. The stoppage began after the firing of an engine driver and, though not union sanctioned, the movement has rapidly spread.
With football over, Whitman high school turns to basketball under coach Albert A. Asbahr. Quis Hampton will captain the varsity, while injuries and player changes shape a capable squad. Newcomer Fred Hoskins and veterans Sturdvant Peters and Brock vie for starting spots. The schedule includes Walla Walla Baker La Grande Union, plus a revenge aim on the Commercial club.
Frank S. Grant ex Portland city attorney and grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Oregon will visit 13 eastern Oregon lodges over the next two weeks starting at Yale. He will tour La Grande Orion Wallowa Union Pendleton Milton Athena Adams He ix visiting Red Cross Orion Enterprize Blue Mountain Damon Hercules Pythian Lomas and Pleiades lodges with dates through December 20.
In Salem the state railroad commission held a public necessity for telephone service and ordered Pacific Telephone and Telegraph to interchange calls with Home Telephone and Telegraph in the Wright Dickinson Hotel complaint against Hotel Oregon in Portland. The ruling concerns interchanging calls to serve the hotel.
A Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Tod advertises a free home remedy claim to cure rheumatic and neuralgic pains by removing uric acid from the blood and restoring joint flexibility. She says the discovery requires no climate changes and ships proof by mail.
Osteopathic hints describe the second cervical vertebra twisted by right side muscle contracture causing neuralgia at the base of the skull and headaches. It cites eye ear troubles, catarrh, insomnia, and potential stroke from head blood pressure. Promotes removing cause by vertebral realignment and muscle relaxation as true osteopathy. By authority of Drs. Hoisington Judd Building.
In a historic ruling the older telephone company must provide interexchange service with its rival, after a hard fight. The hotel must pay 31 3 cents on outgoing calls transferred from its Home lines, while incoming calls are free. The commission’s decision sets a precedent likely to trigger similar demands by other hotels and businesses across the state, signaling a broad shift in telephone operations.
In Milwaukee on December 5 the engagement of Professor F Stanley Powles, West High School mathematics teacher, to Miss Essay Hulbert of Albany Oregon was announced. Miss Hulbert, an accomplished musician, is Levi Hulbert's daughter, a local manufacturer. The couple plan to wed soon with the date kept secret. Powles has long been active in Milwaukee musical circles and met Miss Hulbert while performing as a Chautauqua soloist in Oregon.
Acting Secretary B T Galloway grants James Lindsey of Portland a permit to build and operate a hydro electric plant on Mill Creek in Douglas county Oregon. The plant will supply power eightteen miles to Reedsport for pulp manufacture and support existing fish cannery cold storage creamery and warehouse ahead of Southern Pacific railroad expansion.
Lindsey and associates in Tweedsport foresee the town becoming a valuable manufacturing and shipping hub with a power plant and pulp mill. Plans include a rock-fill dam about 30 feet high and 126 feet long at the Loon Lake outlet, supporting development and transport facilities.
Packey McFarland of Chicago outpointed Harry Trendall of St. Louis in eight rounds at catchweights with McFarland weighing 146 pounds and Trendall about 140 pounds. The Chicago fighter pressed the action throughout the bout in St. Louis.
President Wilson was reported to be much improved today his cold yielding to treatment and he could take up office work at the White House. He was not well enough to preside over the regular cabinet meeting so it was abandoned.
T R Sheridan former president of the First National Bank of Roseburg and a prominent local figure was indicted by the grand jury on two charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. A bench warrant was served and he was released on $5000 bail. Trial set for February term of the circuit court.
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